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I pretty much never check my Hotmail account any more; it’s become my default spam bucket ever since Hotmail gleefully deleted a bunch of mail on me after I failed to log in often enough during a very busy period a few years back. (That and it seems to currently enjoy sending Safari into […]

I spent the better part of today cooking up a nice little interface to the US Postal Service’s rate calculation APIs, and like a good little dev I’ve even been writing little py.test cases to poke at it. But once it came time to stop stubbing out the live IO and see if their […]

I’m sort of stuck on AT&T; for internet access (after they clobbered my nice Speakeasy hookup), which means I get the wonderful benefit of “AT&T; Yahoo” services. Mainly this means that I get extra “AT&T; Yahoo” banners slapped on any of Yahoo’s services that I happen to be a member of. I […]

I am learning to hate my phone company all over again.
We haven’t had voice service for two weeks. Sometimes calls in would ring forever, sometimes the line would show as permanently busy. Outgoing calls, forget it. Liz has been going back and forth with them trying to get it fixed. AT&T; […]

Mildly incensed by a recent burp of stupidity from my home town, I sent this letter to the superintendent of the Durango school district and to the editor of the local newspaper:

I grew up in Durango and attended its excellent public schools from kindergarten through graduation from DHS in 1995.

It was with great embarrassment and […]

Another fabulous win for my productivity today–my cube was completely dismantled, moved a few feet to one side, and put back together again, allowing a new cubicle to be built in between me and a neighbor. I was told to expect “an hour or two” that I wouldn’t be able to get anything done […]

…is the number of unread messages in my inbox.
It turns out if your password expires while you’re on vacation, Outlook decides to stop running your filters.
How convenient.

Mood:thrilled

Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]

So it’s “take your dog to work day” here, and I can’t figure out what bothers me the most — the yapping, or the smell.
Update @ 14:51: OMG, there’s a dog with a squeaky chew toy on the other side of the wall from me. While I’m trying to code under a now […]

Sometimes, life utterly baffles me.
Sears somehow thinks that, while fully aware that I’m a 29-year-old white male, adverts for “Olga Panties” are something that they should include with my bill. Even the name scares me… I mean, seriously, even if I were the panty-buying type, “OLGA PANTIES” just screams of bad branding. But […]